Dexa bone scan

Iam64

Can I join the fed up club please- sounds fun x

Then there were three!

We could have a right old moan about anything and everything, without feeling guilty or boring other posters.

We could. We could compare levels of fed upness . This morning I started about 8 out of 10. Shoulder woke me several times and getting comfortable a challenge. Anyway, I did some of the physio recommended excercise while the kettle boiled and I’m now one cup of coffee into the day. That spaniel is snuggled up next to me and I’m down to a 5 with the aim of getting to 1 out of 10 after a second coffee along with a toasted hot cross bun

I was thinking of making a thread, seriously, so people who are under the weather can talk about their aches, pains, swollen bits, sore parts, and inflamed places.
Their lumps and bumps, their itches and patches, their insides and outsides, their ups and their downs.
I get on my own wick moaning about it all, so it must pee others off.

Good for you Iam.

I have been sitting at a 9/10 on the fed up scale on and off since my RA appointment last Friday, with little resolution. I have felt quite hopless, as my pain is also sitting at 9/10.

However, a day with my 11 month old, darling granddaughter yesterday, brought those levels right down. 😍

I hope you feel a bit better as the day goes on.

MissA, great minds and all that.

Sometimes, I am not robust enough to fight back, when people challenge what I post and it can look as if I am hiding.
Moaning about incapacity and pain, may look like a cop out.

However, I am mindful that I have derailed this thread, so I'm off to get dressed with great difficulty.
Last week, I got trapped in an M&S changing room with a dress stuck on my head! Is this what it has come to?
Oh the embarrassment! 🤣

I need a bath, but I have carers to help me in the mornings, and they piddle around with the times.
They end up coming around 20 mins before my boy is due to start school, so I have to let him take preference.

I ran the water hoping someone would arrive.

Now.... I'm looking at it, wondering how my climbing skills are today.
If you never hear from me again, you'll know they weren't as good as I'd hoped.

MissA, getting stuck may be to your advantage.

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Taking about baths Miss A reminded me of my old English teacher who after she retired I used to go for tea once a month . She had a wooden bench across her bath so she could shower. She was riddled with arthritis. She had an arrangement with her neighbour who had a key and came in everyday day at 10am to clean for her.

My friend was having a shower and the bench collapsed. So she was stuck with hot water pouring over her for a hour before her neighbour came in. Turned the water off but couldn't get her our but covered her in towels and phoned for help . A fire engine came with an ambulance. Should say my friend had lost all her hair and wore wigs. She did make she laugh when she said 2 handsome firemen lifted her out and she said fancy you having to handle my winkley bottom. They told her it was ok love given us a good started to the day and after putting her on the bed they both kissed her cheek . Then the paramedics looked her over to make sure she wasn't seriously hurt.

It was the highlight of her day as they gave her a kiss to. She was in her early eighties. But she never showered again just a flannel wash..

But the way she told me it about tears of laughter were rolling down my face. She still had her Welsh accent even though she moved to England to go to uni . Sadly few years later she fell and broken her hip and died in hospital. But had many years of teas with her when I married my husband went with me then our children.

She was a strong Welsh woman from a mining village so for her to go too uni was a proud time for her parents.

Hope that's given someone a smile . 😊

Aw, thanks Whiff.

I do love the way you tell things; you always make me smile.

Nice to spend a minute thinking about your friend, too, and remembering her achievements.

Wonderful that you remember her with fondness. I guess that is what we all wish for.
Fed up scale (FUS) = 7/10 cos ticker going bonkers. Hope to lower the score as going on hols with family later today. But they all have bad throats so I may slip down the scale by the end of the week ...

To go back to osteoporosis I was diagnosed at 52- no fractures but my mum had it and there is a family history. Took Aledronic Acid for the prescribed period (staying on it too long has resulted in people presenting with very unusual fractures) and was put on calcium and Vit D which have to be taken together in order for bone density to improve. Was reduced to osteopenia in my late 60s and at my last scan last year my bone density is good for my age except for a couple of vertebrae which are a bit low (but not bad) I do tai-chi and Pilates.

That's good to know.

I didn't realise osteoporosis can be improved, I imagined the Calci D and other treatments would just slow down it's progress.

MissAdventure

That's good to know.

I didn't realise osteoporosis can be improved, I imagined the Calci D and other treatments would just slow down it's progress.

I'm not sure how much of a cure it is more to do with bone density generally decreasing with age and mine not doing so because of the medication and supplements, so they caught up.

I have osteopenia which appears to have resulted from radiotherapy. I fractured my shoulder badly in 3 places in a freak accident several years ago and had a Dexascan which was a showed levels a bit below normal. Then I had another after breast cancer and treatment only to be told I have osteopenia. I now take two Calcichew tablets each day (Bit D and calcium), although I took Vitamin D before and ate a good mixed healthy diet. These are easy to take.

I used to buy Boots calcium and vit.D capsules. No adverse reaction. On reaching 60 I asked if I could have them on prescription. I was told they were not available on prescription but I tried liquids, and tablets. It was like taking concrete. so had to stop taking anything. It does have its compensation as I take a calcium tablet rather than Imodium.

I always felt the vitamin D made me sick.
I mean vomit, by the way.

Is that something anyone else found, too?

After dexa scan I was diagnosed with osteopenia and put on Vitamin d tablets had another scan 5 years later and it’s not got any worse and has improved.

That’s encouraging Glorianny. Despite inflammatory arthritis from mid 20’s my last dexa was encouraging. HRT said to,have helped, I took it 5 years in my late 50s. I’m waiting for an update dexa after fracturing my shoulder in a labrador related fall. Dog fine - I’m not 😂

I was told by obgyn in US that every woman over age 50 should be taking a calcium/magnesium tablet daily to help prevent osteoporosis and that the magnesium was essential to absorb the calcium. I've been following that advice ever since although now add B12 and vitamin D.

I'm coeliac and like many coeliacs, have osteoporosis. (Dexa scan in 2018 showed lumbar -3.8 Right total hip -1.3 Left total hip -1.7
Took alendronic acid from 2003 - 2006 then Strontium for 2 years (approximately). My mum took alendronic acid for years (no time limit when she started) until she was 76 and was told that her spine was 'shot to pieces', so I don't think it worked for her. After Mum was told about her spine, I stopped treatment but just take vitamin D. I also have a vibrating plate which MIGHT increase bone density. I haven't broken anything yet but thankfully, haven't had any nasty falls.

I take 1 x 4000 IU vitamin D3 daily.

If the Vitamin D you took formerly was not taken at the same time as calcium it will not have been absorbed by your body, and therefore done you no good at all.

It seems a lot of people such as doctors and pharmacists who should know this don't to say nothing of the drug companies who should long since have started combining the two.

I hope you benefit from taking vitamin D and calcium now.

grandetante are you sure? In normal life we are getting our vitamin D from going out and about during the day and, mainly consuming calcium in under cover in our homes or cafes/restaurants at meals or while consuming beverages with milk, we are not consuming both together.

MOnica, the information from grandetante is consistent with the advice from my rheumatology consultant when she prescribed Adcal, ie calcium and vit D. She told me random blood tests in the north west of England where I live, would indicate the entire population to be deficient in vitamin D if tested in February. We don’t get enough sunlight.

MOnica, the information from grandetante is consistent with the advice from my rheumatology consultant when she prescribed Adcal, ie calcium and vit D.

Exactly what I was told by my consultant.